rs1799945(C;G)

One copy of H63D, carrier of hemochromatosis, likely unaffected unless also C282Y carrier.

Magnitude
3.0Important
Repute
Bad
Frequency
17%Average of 4 populations
On SNPedia
rs1799945(C;G)
Gene
LOC108783645

Frequency

Share of people with C;G in each HapMap population.

  • European ancestry (Utah)36%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)25%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)8%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)0%

Other genotypes of rs1799945

  1. C;CGoodNot a H63D hemochromatosis carrier.Typical · 0.083% of people
  2. G;GMost notableBadTwo copies of H63D, likely affected by mild form of hemochromatosisVery important · 4.00% of people

All about rs1799945

Notes

From SNPedia

You are a carrier for rs1799945(G) H63D Hereditary hemochromatosis. You are unlikely to be affected unless also a carrier of rs1800562(A) C282Y, but others in your family may be. This is a treatable condition.

Source and license

Adapted from rs1799945(C;G) on SNPedia, using a snapshot taken October 16, 2026. SNPedia content is shared under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US, and this page is shared under the same license.

SNPedia is a community-edited wiki. Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice. Magnitude is a community rating of how interesting a genotype is, not a risk score.